<TITLE>10. Par 67-73</TITLE>L-67 When you're playing a ball game (as it's football season), the thing we want to do, is not everybody try to take the ball away from the man that's got it; it's trying to guard that man. Protect him; let him get through. We're trying to make a goal. See?
But could you imagine a team so untrained as to find one man--their own man with the ball running to the field goal, and then instead of trying to knock the enemy away from him, the opposing team, to let your own man that's got the ball take off with it, every man trying to take the ball out of his hand? Why, you're bound to lose.
And today, we have the same thing. When we see God come on the scene, and going to bless a certain thing, let's keep all the enemies away from it. Let's use our influences as--as tackles, not runners, tackles that protects the runner, lets him pack the ball through, because there's no opposition; all you have to do is just keep running. And we should be tackles.

L-70 I speak worldwide, you know, for the Full Gospel Business Men, around the world, organizing chapters. And not long ago when, I believe, it was at Kingston, Jamaica, when they had Castro and all of them up there at this meeting (Or we'd been down to his place, that's the way it was.), and the celebrity of all through the islands was up there; and those businessmen was trying to preach the Gospel. He's out of his place. We preachers have hard enough time to keep it level. And they use every little influence they can find, and every little technique this way and that way, and it keeps it so scrupled up you don't know what to do.

L-71 Many times at a--in a church--a little church can have a revival going on; someone will want to go out here and lead a prayer meeting, And then, he's got a different idea from what really the Bible says, but he believes it this way anyhow; and he'll start an influence and draw others away from it. The thing to do is protect this Message the way It's a-going, stay right with It, and block everything away from It, if we're ever going to cross the goal line.

L-72 And I said, "Brethren, there's something wrong. You fellows are businessmen. The first place, you don't understand the approach. You don't understand the approach to the ministry, because the ministry is a God-called gift. God hath set in the Church first apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, and pastors." God set them in there for the perfecting of the Church. Businessmen should testify. Women, housewife, no matter if you're the maid in somebody's house, testify. Do everything you can for the Kingdom; but don't ever inject your own ideas; just say what the Message says and keep going on. (See?) And then maybe you'd have some influence. Well, don't try to preach now until God, you know calls you. Just stay right with that, your testimony, because if you don't, you'll get off in the wrong category; and then you'll mess up everything. That's it. And it doesn't please God at all. This proves it here.

L-73 When this king... Now, when he was rebuked and told the truth by the minister of the building, and tried to tell him that he was wrong, that God called that for Aaron's descents only, and they were consecrated to that service only... That's all they was to do; they were consecrated for that. And a king, no matter how righteous he was, or how much God had blessed him, he had no right to burn incense. He was taking the priest's place, and he should not do it. And when he was rebuked, he got wroth; his temper flew up, and right while his temper flew up, leprosy appeared in his face. He broke out with leprosy, and then he dropped the censer and run out the building. See? Trying to impersonate somebody else, we shouldn't do that.
In his anger he done wrong, and he was smitten. Oh, it was certainly a lesson to this young prophet to see now, no matter how great the man was, he had to abide in his calling.


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